Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Manners.
I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
Orson Welles
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
Johann von Goethe
Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt.
Kin Hubbard
What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.
Hitopadesa
What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
Leonard Cohen
Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.
Lord Chesterfield
Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.
Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.
A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
